The TrackPoint is God's own pointing device. If He had wanted us to use a mouse, He would have given us a third arm.

Yeah, but the Devil messed with Lenovo's design process when they started trying to ape Apple with their single-piece, absolutely terrible, attempt at a Mac-like touchpad. This makes the trackpoint nearly useless.

Apparently they got back to their senses with the more recent models, though...

Trackpoints are fantastic once you're used to them. Particularly for reading long documents - they had a "scroll mode" button that would let you use the trackpoint to scroll through a document one-handed without moving from the home row. I miss that thing.

You must not be a programmer. Being able to move the mouse and scroll without your hands leaving the home row is genius.

Personally, I use the trackpoint exclusively, up to the point where I have the standalone Lenovo old-style keyboard.

Yep, me too. More productive, and as a bonus I no longer have 'mouse hand' RSI wrist pain. People are missing out.

Back in the late 90s I had a Toshiba Satellite Pro 420 with the green nipple mouse. It was by far better than any touchpad that came along until very recently.

(If anybody knows the actual term other than "nipple mouse" please let me know).

According to https://xkcd.com/243/ it's either TrackPoint(tm) or "clit mouse"

I loved these nipples. Only Apple's trackpad is better than it.

What? Trackpoints are the best. I have a newer T440s with a trackpoint and I use it for everything mouse related.

I know some people that can't use mice without pain. Hence they are trackpoint all the way. I only use the trackpoint on my laptop as well, but I'd rather have my logitech mouse with 'tilt' style wheel.

One of my coworkers has this issue. He brought in a trackball for that reason. Makes sense the trackpoint would be the ideal mouse in a laptop for that reason. No need to move your hands off the home row.